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Nursing diagnosis
Describes a health problem that can be treated by nursing measure; step in the nursing process
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Objective data
Information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer; signs.
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Subjective data
Things a person tells you about hat you cannot observe through your senses; symptoms.
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Bariatrics
The filed of medicine focused on the treatment and control of besity
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Geriatrics
The field of medicine concerned with the problems and diseases of old age and older persons.
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Holism
A concept that considers the whole person; the whole person has physical, social, psychological, and spiritual parts that are woven together and cannot be separated.
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Morbid obesity
The person weighs 100 pound or more over his or her normal weight.
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Obesity
Having an excess amount of total body fat; body weight is 20% or more above what is normal for the person height and age.
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Obstetrics
The field of medicine concerned with the care of women during pregnancy, labor, and childbirth and for 6 to 8 weeks after birth.
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Optimal level of function
A person's highest potential for mental and physical performance.
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Pediatrics
The field of medicine concerned with the growth development, and care of children - newborns to teenagers.
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Psychiatry
The field of medicine concerned with mental health disorders
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Religion
Spiritual beliefs, needs, and practices
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Self-actualization
Experiencing one's potential
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Base of support
The area on which an object rests
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Dorsal recumbent position
The back-lying or supine position
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Ergonomics
The science of designing the job to fit the worker; ergo - works, nomos - law
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Fowler's position
A semi-sitting position; the head of the bed is raised between 45 and 60 degrees.
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Lateral position
The person lies on 1 side or the other; side-lying position
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Prone position
Lying on the abdomen with the head turned to 1 side
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Sims' position
A left side-lying position in which the upper leg (right leg) is sharply flexed so it is not on the lower leg (left leg) and the lower arm (left arm) is behind the person; semi-prone side position
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Supine position
The back-lying or dorsal recumbent position
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Work-related musculo-skeletal disorders
Injuries and disorders of the muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, and cartilage; they are caused or made worse by the work setting.
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Bed mobility
How a person moves to and from a lying position, turns from side to side, and re-positions in a bed or other furniture.
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Functional status
The person's ability to perform the activities of daily living (ADL) required to meet basic needs and required for health and well-being.
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Logrolling
Turing the person as a unit, in alignment, with 1 motion.
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Lateral transfer
When a person moves between 2 horizontal surfaces
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Transfer
How a person moves to and from surfaces - bed chair, wheelchair, toilet or standing position.
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Contractures
The lack of joint mobility caused by the abnormal shortening of a muscle.
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